Hostas
Hostas for sale at the Vermont Flower Farm
The documented history of hostas dates from the late 1600’s when botanists from the Dutch East Indies Company began to collect them. In recent years, interest in hostas has risen to the point that they compete annually with daylilies as one of the most desired and valuable garden perennials.
Hostas range in size from 2 inch dwarf size to extra large leaved varieties exceeding several feet in dimension with individual leaves 18 inches or greater across. Scapes carrying flowers range from several inches to in excess of six feet high. Leaf colors range from very dark blue to blue-gray to shades of yellow, chartreuse, cream, and white. Margins, stripes, and streaking add to the various leaf textures, from smooth and glossy to highly puckered, and create great garden versatility. Recent hybridizing has brought several dozen hostas to market with petioles of varying red and burgundy and leaves with minor red infiltrating towards the mid rib area of some leaves.
